a descriptive compilation of a cultureculture is not genetically inherited, it is shared, learned, and dynamic- never static based on fieldwork using ethnographic methodsmethods used by anthropologists, scientists and/or individuals to discover cultural attributes during research of various venues; ethnographic methods include both informal and formal interviews, fieldwork, participant observation, using key consultants to confirm information, and academic research; in some cases it may also include interdisciplinary research with expert consultants such as interviewing and participant observationa technique of field research used in anthropology disciplines, by which an investigator (participant observer) studies the life of a group by sharing in its activities; it may include research and description of an individual’s culture, an entire cultural group, or a business culture